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Showing 1 to 20 of 446 for “"Intensive care unit"”.
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Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit Patient Transition
<p>With no designated cardiovascular step-down unit at Phoenix Children’s Hospital, patient transitions to acute care are inconsistent following admission to the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU). We aim to improve CVICU patient continuum of care through transferring patients to a …
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Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Skin-Care Team
<p>In the United States, pressure injuries (PIs) cost $9.1–$11.6 billion per year and claim more than 60,000 patient lives. The large Northern California hospital where this CNL project was conducted has had an 8.33% incidence of hospital-acquired PIs at or greater than stage two in the pediatric …
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Patient Perception of Intensive Care Unit Discomfort
… the effects of discomfort experienced in intensive care. <strong>Purpose: </strong>The purpose of this study was to describe select sociodemographic characteristics and other factors associated with the perception of ICU discomfort among adults 18 years and older after they were …
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Occupational Therapy in the Intensive Care Unit
… around America. Occupational therapists in the intensive care unit (ICU) at Mills-Peninsula Medical Center (Burlingame, California) lack a standard protocol for addressing physical, cognitive, and psychosocial factors in patients post cardiac surgery. Furthermore, individuals’ experience and …
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Delayed discharges from an adult intensive care unit (ICU)
… use of resources without compromising quality of care is essential in the current healthcare climate. Intensive care unit services are one of the most resource intensive and therefore expensive services within a hospital. Because intensive care unit services comprise a significant portion of …
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Facilitation of parenting within the newborn intensive care unit
The major challenge facing neonatal health care providers today is to combine the necessary technological intensive care for preterm infants with a sensitive and individualized approach to facilitate neurobehavioral development while acknowledging and supporting parents of these infants in their …
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Augmentative and Alternative Communication in the Intensive Care Unit
… alternative communication (AAC) system use in intensive care units (ICU) and clinical decision making patterns. AAC is use of any alternative method of communication when oral communication cannot be achieved (ASHA, 2013). Patients in the ICU may become nonverbal for many reasons including …
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Representation Learning for Patients in the Intensive Care Unit
… in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Healthcare. Data is now being generated in the form of Electronic Health Records at a scale previously unimaginable. Not only does this create opportunities for the application of AI, but it also drives innovation in the machine learning sphere. This is …
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Predicting intensive care unit patient outcomes through patient similarity
An ICU stay involves invasive treatments, and frequently, the decision to continue therapy is made with limited information based on the physician's personal experience. This thesis proposal describes a tool to assist this decision by identifying similar patients and using their outcomes for …
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Clotting analysis of blood samples from intensive care unit patients.
Introduction: Patients in the intensive care unit have complex haemostatic changes, which may be either procoagulant or anticoagulant. Global assays may reflect a patient’s net haemostatic balance and can contribute to pro- or anti-coagulant assessment. In this project, global assays were used to …
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Evaluating the musculoskeletal health state of intensive care unit survivors
… impacting physical function of patients post-Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admission. Musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions may be complex in presentation, with ICU survivors potentially at greater risk of their development. The MSK health state of ICU survivors and the relationship to physical …
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Mapping Current Adult Intensive Care Unit Patient Care Rounding Practices
… is essential for high quality patient care; within the ICU the majority of health care provider communication occurs during patient care rounds. While several best practices for rounds have been proposed it is unclear if they are being used in Canadian adult Intensive Care Units (ICU). …
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Real-time processing and visualization of intensive care unit data
Intensive care unit (ICU) patients undergo detailed monitoring so that copious information regarding their condition is available to support clinical decision-making. Full utilization of the data depends heavily on its quantity, quality and manner of presentation to the physician at the bedside of …
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Characterization of intravenous medication administration in an intensive care unit
… intravenous (IV) medication administration in an intensive care unit at a partner hospital. Information regarding IV medication dose was extracted from MIMIC II, a large database containing real patient data; this information was used to characterize the use of twelve hemodynamic drugs. …
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Off-Hours Admission and Mortality in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
… ill patients may be admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (ICU) at any time, while staffing and other factors may vary by day of the week or time of day.
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Auditory Alarms In The Intensive Care Unit: Experimental And Observational Studies
… warnings in hospital environments such as the Intensive Care Unit. As the amount of medical technology used to monitor a patient's condition increases, there is a concomitant increase in the number of auditory warnings. Each piece of equipment has its own alarm and often the sounds used are …
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Noise Levels In The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Systematic Review
… is to investigate noise levels in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in order to see if they are in compliance with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) proposed standards. This investigation also aims to compare noise levels among various NICU conditions in order to best hospital …
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An Autoethnography on the Liminal Spaces in an Intensive Care Unit
… as-yet unexplored aspects of a hospital, its Intensive Care Unit, and life itself within this context. In this autoethnography, the author, an ICU nurse, identifies and describes such liminal spaces as the Code Blue where a patient is neither dead nor alive, the challenge of caring for …
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